Kdenlive, a powerful free and open source video editor from the KDE team is now having a dedicated fundraising campaign to support the team working on it.
Probably one of my favourite pieces of software. I often have a love / hate relationship with it due to some historic instability issues, although it has genuinely gotten a lot better there. It could be improved as with anything and these funds will help towards that.
For the KDE team, this seems to be the first time they've done a dedicated fundraiser with previous campaigns being for KDE as a whole. The goal isn't even what I would call ambitious, at only €15,000 that's a tiny price to pay for such an important piece of free software.
It's what I use for editing nearly all the videos on our YouTube channel, so it's quite important to me personally too because I just don't get on with any other editor.
See the fundraiser here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Right on. It's a pretty excellent video editor. Here's wishing them great success with their fundraiser. They deserve all the support they can get.
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BlackBloodRum Sep 20, 2022
I've never used this video editor and to be honest I have no use for it.
Donated anyway since I use KDE
Donated anyway since I use KDE
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Great project, and I donate happily. But for some unknown reason, the PayPal payment option did not work in Firefox. I had to do it with the Chrome browser. Just in case someone has a similar problem.
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Happily doing what I can for this fundraiser, I still use a virtual machine to use Sony Vegas but keep checking in on Kdenlive now and then to see if it can replace that, something I really hope it will eventually.
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I've been using shotcut for a while because it's so easy to use, but it lack good object tracking or a way to plug opencv. What's the object tracking status in Kdenlive ?
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mr-victory Sep 20, 2022
I tried KDEnLive in the past (maybe 1 yr ago) and had problems with basic functionality. Perhaps I didn't understand how to use, and I used OpenShot even if it barely worked in my case with frequent crashes. I should take another look at KDEnLive when I need video editing again.
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Quoting: mr-victoryI tried KDEnLive in the past (maybe 1 yr ago) and had problems with basic functionality. Perhaps I didn't understand how to use, and I used OpenShot even if it barely worked in my case with frequent crashes. I should take another look at KDEnLive when I need video editing again.
It was really yanky a couple of years ago. It has improved by a huge amount and is now very useable.
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mr-victory Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: jrtcouple of years agoThat's nice to hear but considering that I am a Linux user for less than 2 years and haven't used KDEnLive on Windows, it isn't much helpful. I will try again, anyways.
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Thanks for the heads up on this fund raiser Liam. I made a donation.
Over the last year I have switched from using Xfce to KDE for my desktop environment. For that reason and because I have noted a couple content creators that I follow recommend Kdenlive over OBS, I installed Kdenlive on one of my machines.
The timing of this article is rather fortuitous in that received a video from a friend that I need to edit. Up to this point I have only been doing a test drive of Kdenlive. It will be interesting to see if my donation is a good investment, so to speak.
Over the last year I have switched from using Xfce to KDE for my desktop environment. For that reason and because I have noted a couple content creators that I follow recommend Kdenlive over OBS, I installed Kdenlive on one of my machines.
The timing of this article is rather fortuitous in that received a video from a friend that I need to edit. Up to this point I have only been doing a test drive of Kdenlive. It will be interesting to see if my donation is a good investment, so to speak.
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ElectricPrism Sep 21, 2022
Oh good! You used to not be able to donate directly to Kenlive, at best you could donate to KDE in the past.
I noticed some projects like Krita limit donations to 100€ which I think needs to be updated. I hope their Kdenlive is not capped so short.
I really hope they can supercharge their development.
I noticed some projects like Krita limit donations to 100€ which I think needs to be updated. I hope their Kdenlive is not capped so short.
I really hope they can supercharge their development.
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QuoteFor the KDE team, this seems to be the first time they've done a dedicated fundraiser with previous campaigns being for KDE as a whole.
This isn't the first time, Krita did a dedicated fundraiser as well.
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Quoting: GEOThis is an official KDE-level fundraiser, Krita do their own thing.QuoteFor the KDE team, this seems to be the first time they've done a dedicated fundraiser with previous campaigns being for KDE as a whole.
This isn't the first time, Krita did a dedicated fundraiser as well.
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Philadelphus Sep 21, 2022
Nice, I'll have to donate. When I got into video editing back in 2017 Kdenlive was the only editor I could find with the right level of features, and I've used it quite a bit since.
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I currently use Davinci Resolve, but I'd love if KdenLive could get even better so I donated. I wish them the best of luck.
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Tehchnically this is a really good editor with a decent toolset and fairly stable - I'd dare claim the overall best on Linux. There's just one massive issue with the render from it - it's not well synced audio/video. It starts out synced but then slowly gets desynced with time. It's really weird, such a basic thing as this.
But that's ruined many a video clip for me.
But that's ruined many a video clip for me.
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Quoting: BeamboomTehchnically this is a really good editor with a decent toolset and fairly stable - I'd dare claim the overall best on Linux. There's just one massive issue with the render from it - it's not well synced audio/video. It starts out synced but then slowly gets desynced with time. It's really weird, such a basic thing as this.
But that's ruined many a video clip for me.
Maybe it's a bug in the FFMpeg version you have? In some condition that Kdenlive triggers. That could be the reason it's not hugely widepread issue. Though I recall having some issues like that many years ago.
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